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South-West Perth. In April 1896 Mr Oswin A. J. Lee found a 

 nest and eggs at the Lake of Menteith ; Mr Evans found another nest 

 with two fresh eggs in May of that year, and has seen others there 

 in later years; while on 8th August 191 7 we saw at least two pairs 

 of adults and several young on the same sheet of water. A nest 

 with eggs was found on Loch Lubnaig in 1912 by Mr G. G. Black- 

 wood. 



Kinross. Curiously enough, the first record of the Great 

 Crested Grebe nesting on Loch Leven was not till 1908, though 

 we feel positive that the loch was colonised earlier than this. In 

 that year six nests were discovered on 5th July by Mr H. Raeburn, 

 and nests have subsequently been found there. 



South Fife. In 1896 a brood of Great Crested Grebes was reared 

 on Loch Gelly, the first time eggs or young had been seen there, 

 though as long ago as June 1885 Mr Evans saw a pair of these birds 

 on the loch under circumstances which left little doubt in his mind 

 that they were breeding there. The tenant at the adjoining farm 

 told him that he had seen the birds on the loch for the four previous 

 summers, which takes us back to 1881. On Camilla Loch, near 

 Auchtertool, two pairs with half-grown broods of four and two 

 respectively were seen on 18th August 1906. In 19 10 one with 

 two young was observed on Loch Fitty, while in 19 16 we observed 

 two pairs and their young on Kilconquhar Loch. 



Tay. 



This is another well-populated area and may be the original 

 home of the Great Crested Grebe in Scotland. 



North Fife. The earliest breeding record we have for Lindores 

 Loch is that kindly sent us by Lieut.-Commander J. G. Millais, who 

 found Great Crested Grebes and their young on the loch between 

 1879 and 1 88 1. Mr Corstorphan, who lived for many years (from 

 1S94) near the loch, knew the Grebes during all the time of his resi- 

 dence there. Mr Allan Briggs records having found a pair on 19th 

 May 1894, sailing about accompanied by two young ones, on a small 

 sheet of water in Fife {A.S.N.H.^ 1894, p. 181). Mr Briggs did not 

 mention the locality, but in an annotated copy of Dr Harvie-Brown's 

 Fauna of the Tay Basin and Strathmore, we learn that it was Lindores 

 Loch. We have known the Grebes ourselves there for a good 

 many years now, and have found their nests and eggs, and have seen 

 the young on many occasions. In 1904 a pair were found 

 nesting on a small weedy loch to the west of Lindores, called the 

 Black Loch. 



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